Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

  • sc_griffith@awful.systems
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    trying to write a thread about polytopia but my images wonā€™t upload >:(. idk what iā€™m doing wrong, iā€™ve tried on both my desktop and my phone

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      it should be fixedā€¦ again. for some reason our image cache keeps getting into a state where it either stops accepting uploads or stops accepting requests at all. I plan to upgrade us to the latest version soon, but itā€™ll unfortunately involve a little bit of downtime: to upgrade pict-rs to a new point release, you have to run the migrate command, but it only works for the previous release. weā€™re two releases behind, so I have to custom package the in-between release just to get us there.

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        i see! thanks for all your work <3. I think iā€™ll just write the thread after the upgrade, i got partially done and it started eating my images again so maybe this just isnā€™t the moment

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          of course! re the images: uggh hell with it, Iā€™m scheduling the maintenance and Iā€™m gonna spend some time in the lead-up isolating a root cause for our breakage just in case the upgrade doesnā€™t fix it